Casa Grande Police Shooting: Suspect Found Dead After Shooting Wife, Off-Duty Officer, Police Say

The man that Casa Grande Police say shot his wife and an ex-duty officer was found dead on Wednesday as a task force that included police officers and federal agents hunted him. Juan Pablo Rodriguez-Fregoso, 37, was dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police say that around 10 a.m. Wednesday, Rodriguez-Fregoso approached his wife, 29-year-old Yvette Rodriguez, and 40-year-old Robert Price on Lakeside Parkway near Villago Middle School.

Price is an officer with the department - he was off-duty at the time - and Rodriguez is a civilian employee of the department.

Rodriguez-Fregoso opened fire, striking Rodriguez once in the back and Price several times in the leg and torso.

Both were flown to Phoenix in serious condition. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

Rodriguez-Fregoso fled the scene, sparking the manhunt.

Around 3 p.m., the United States Marshals Service Arizona Wanted Task Force located him in a car on Loop 202 Westbound in the San Tan Valley.

He was dead.

The investigation continues into why he opened fire.

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